The Man with No Name comes to Blu Ray

[Thai Fighter]

Just in case you're like me and waiting to start your Blu Ray Western Library:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Fox/MGM/Disc_Announcements/Blu-ray_to_Get_Good,_Bad_and_Ugly_this_May/2538

Next I'd like to see "Silverado" which is the movie that got me to fall in love with westerns as a teenager all over again.  There are better movies out there than Silverado, but none I have fonder memories for at the moment.



Best,

TF

[Harley Starr]

Silverado was the first Western that I can remember seeing at a very young age. Fond memories of that one too.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly on Blu-Ray, sounds great but I want to see For a Few Dollars More even more.
While I'm thinking about it, how about Young Guns 1 & 2?

[Thai Fighter]

It's ironic that they jump into the hi-def pool with the "last" of the "Man with No Name" trilogy instead of the first, "Fist Full of Dollars".  I think I'll Netflix this in Blu Ray and then hold off purchasing until the 3-set edition comes out.  In hopes that they'll be some special bonuses in waiting for an all in one compendium.

Young Guns "1" was good, "2" was eh... OK.    I was still needing that final nudge to "go western".  I don't know why Silverado did it so much for me... the story, the (Copeland'esque) music, the town.  Young Guns was just a bunch of post- John Hughs looking kids running around with guns.  The one character who I could get into, General Zod (I mean John Tunstall), was sacrificed to provide our characters with an impetus to do their "thing" to early.

As for "Young Riders".  Waaaah-Hooo!.  When Young Riders came out four years later, I truly became more than casually interested in "The West".  In fact, that's what made me take the first step and go into Service Merchandise and buy that Armi San Marco 1851, followed by the coffee table Colt Book, and my failed attempt at getting a Winchester 94 before they stopped production.  Had I to do it over again, I would have paid a few dollars more for the steel framed one.  But, at age 21 I didn't know a brass framed from a steel, but the $30 difference was huge in 1989.

Young Riders basically portrayed the West as I thought it would truly look in a physical sense.  Don't get me going on characters though, that was weak.  But the production value and sets got me into the series.  At least for the first season.  Season 2 saw me missing it more often than not.  It had lost it's spirit due to focus group and myopic Suits.

[Old Top]

Thai Fighter,

Actually the Good the Bad and the Ugly is the first of the trilogy, that was filmed last, with a Few Dollars More being the second and A Fist full of Dollars being the first.  Confused enough?

Old Top

[Thai Fighter]

Thai Fighter,

Actually the Good the Bad and the Ugly is the first of the trilogy, that was filmed last, with a Few Dollars More being the second and A Fist full of Dollars being the first.  Confused enough?

Old Top

My Head just exploded   I'm going to have to rewatch all of them...

[Russ T Chambers]

Towards the end, right after they blow up the bridge, you'll see Eastwood pick up the serape that becomes his trademark for the next two movies.

[Texas Lawdog]

Those spagetti westerns made Clint an international star. I still enjoy watchin' an old "Rawhide" episode once in a while.

[Abilene]

Towards the end, right after they blow up the bridge, you'll see Eastwood pick up the serape that becomes his trademark for the next two movies.

Plus, in the "Dollar" movies he's shooting a SAA.  Kept the snakes, tho.   Guess that's where Lucas got his idea for shooting the Star Wars movies out of order.   

[Harley Starr]

Plus, in the "Dollar" movies he's shooting a SAA.  Kept the snakes, tho.   Guess that's where Lucas got his idea for shooting the Star Wars movies out of order.   

Lucas had no choice but to shoot the Star Wars movies out of order because the technology of the times were unable to fully realize his vision.

[Thai Fighter]

Lucas had no choice but to shoot the Star Wars movies out of order because the technology of the times were unable to fully realize his vision.

What that really translates into is that Lucas had no idea what backstory he had after the first one was made and his revisionist history brain started making up stuff as he was going!  He had some rough plot lines, but this whole thing where he's trying to sell us on the SW universe having always been there exactly as he had envisioned it is just bull.

I'd respect him more if he just came out and said, I didn't have it all flushed out and the success of the first movie allowed me to fill in the blanks after all these years.

[Trinity]

Thai Fighter,

Actually the Good the Bad and the Ugly is the first of the trilogy, that was filmed last, with a Few Dollars More being the second and A Fist full of Dollars being the first.  Confused enough?

Old Top

A lot of people have theorized about the order, but to me, they are all different movies.  Kinda like Dirty Harry and The Gauntlet... same Actor / Same type of character, but still different.  Also, I never figured out the "Man with no Name" bit.  He is clearly identified as Manco in the For a Few Dollars More flick and was given nicknames in the others.  Yeah, yeah.  I know.  HE never said what his name was.

Plus, in the "Dollar" movies he's shooting a SAA.  Kept the snakes, tho.   Guess that's where Lucas got his idea for shooting the Star Wars movies out of order.  

You are correct.  In the "Dollar movies" he's shooting the SAA, but in GBU, he's shooting the hybrid open-top.

Those movies are what drew me to westerns.  I love 'em!